Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austin, Texas...
Starting out as a reporter on the Austin Statesman while he was still at the University of Texas, White joined the A.P. in 1926, had become its general night editor in Manhattan headquarters before he went off to cover the war in Europe. Says he: "A newspaperman's life is a good career for the man who's really disinterested, whose aim is to explain facts, whose temperament is detached." One of the first dailies to start Columnist White on his new career last week was the conservative Washington Star (circ. 254,992), which signed...
...Page One series by Staffer Leon Hale on Texas A. & M.'s deep-rooted schism over basic educational policies. Other staff-written stories in the bright, boldly laid-out Post last week ranged from Business Editor Sam Weiner's rundown on the recession's impact to Austin Correspondent Felton West's sympathetic account of a "constructive" program at an upstate reformatory once famed for stern treatment of juvenile inmates...
...Hartford Chiefs play baseball, but as far as we know he never walked into the museum in his life") gave the Atheneum the bank account it direly needed. Looking for an out-of-vogue period in which to buy first-class painting, the director, the late A. Everett ("Chick") Austin Jr., beelined for the then unwanted, melodramatic baroque and rococo canvases...
...very location of the main campus$#151;only a few blocks away from the state capitol in Austin-was unfortunate, for the politicians have never been able to keep their hands off the faculty. As recently as 1925, faculty freedom was so shaky that Historian Eugene C. Barker solemnly warned: "It is not secret to my academic colleagues here or elsewhere that a call to the University of Texas arouses no elation, and that, for a long time, we have been losing more good scholars than we are replacing...